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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, September 28, 1998
K-State defeats volleyball team
'Hawks lapse in three games held Saturday
By Laura Bokenkroger
Kansan sportswriter
Consistency is the key for the Kansas volleyball team.
For the Jayhawks to be successful in the Big 12 Conference, they can't afford to have mental lauses — which
is exactly what happened Saturday night against Kansas State
After coming out strong and winning the first game, coach Ray Bechard said that the team inexplicably fell flat.
"We made that first game exciting," Bechard said. "But we had a lapse in the next couple of games."
The Jayhawks battled back from 14-9 to win 16-14 in the first game. But after that, the
momentum shifted.
Setter Laura Rohde said the Jayhawks fell out of sync. They were not passing or serving well, she said, and Kansas State took advantage, winning the next two games 15-5 and 15-3.
Bechard: His team lost to rival Kansas State Saturday.
"The second and third games were discouraged," Rohde said. "We just weren't there
Rohde said the Jayhawks rebounded in the fourth game, providing more of a challenge.
mentally or physically."
"Coach told us to prolong the match as long as we could," Rohde said. "We started kind of slow, but we ended up playing better in that last game."
Despite losing 15-10, they realized their potential to battle back.
Rohde said the Jayhawks were able to extract another positive from Saturday.
"No one had a good game, and it was ugly," Rohde said. "But we wung with them, and we played worse than we have all year. It's a loss, and we didn't play good, but we have to just think about what we didn't do and move on."
Kansas' next opponent is No. 3 Nebraska - the team picked to finish first in the Big 12.
Rohde, who had a career-high
"No one had a good game, and it was ugly.But we hung with them,and we played worse than we have all year."
Laura Rohde Kansas volleyball player
eight block assists against Kansas State, said the outcome of that game depended on what the Jayhawks did on their side of the net.
"We usually play our best against them," Rohde said. "We rise to their level, but the most important thing is that we take care of our side of the net. It doesn't matter who we're playing — as long as we play our best, we can hang with anyone."
NCAA to rule on LSU recruiting violations
ATLANTA — Louisiana State University expects the NCAA to rule within six to eight weeks on penalties for recruiting violations by its men's basketball program.
The Associated Press
control at LSU, met with the school on Saturday. This was the second meeting between the infractions committee and LSU. LSU acknowledged commit
LSU acknowledges committing violations while recruiting Lester Earl and has imposed
penalties on its men's basketball program.
Earl, a 6-foot-8 swingman from Baton Rouge, La., has since transferred to Kansas.
If the committee finds a lack of institutional con
trol, LSU could face tougher
Earl: NCAA recruiting report on him is still weeks away.
punishment. Penalties now call for the loss of five scholarships during the next three years, the loss of 10 official visits to recruits and forfeiture of all games in which Earl played.
"We think we had adequate and good answers to all their questions, and we are hopeful there will be no finding of institutional control," said James Whorton, LSU chancellor emeritus.
Whorton led the LSU delegation that included Joe Dean, athletic director, Dale Brown, former men's basketball coach, and Johnny Jones, former
"We think we had adequate and good answers to all their questions, and we are hopeful there will be no finding of institutional control."
James Whorton LSU Chancellor emeritus
assistant coach.
Brown has been a critic of the NCAA. He retired last year after 25 seasons at LSU.
Kansas City escapes from Eagles with win
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles did just about everything against Kansas City except win, for their worst start in 26 years.
Philadelphia native Rich Gannon's 57-yard completion to Joe Horn in the fourth quarter set up Donnell Bennett's third touchdown run as the Chiefs escaped with a 24-21 victory against the winless Eagles yesterday.
The Eagles, who scored 15 points in their first three games, made the game close when Rodney Petee passed to Duce Staley for a 17-year touchdown with 61 seconds left. But the Chiefs (3-1) recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.
With Elvis Grbac and Andre Rison out with injuries, their replacements — Gannon and Horn — helped drop the Eagles to 0-4 for the first time since 1972.
In the Chiefs' first visit to Philadelphia, Gannon was 17-for-25 for 262 yards as Kansas City won its ninth straight against an NFC opponent. Grbac and Rison should be healthy for a more important AFC West match-up against Seattle at Arrowhead Stadium next week.
Pete Stoyanovich's 21-yard field goal put the Chiefs within 14-10 with 11:38 left, and the Kansas City defense forced the Eagles to punt. On the first play, Gannon lofted a long pass to Horn, who beat Brian Dawkins. Bennett ran it in from the 7-yard
line, and the extra point made it 17-14 with 8:41 left.
It looked like Mark McMillian had wrapped it up when his interception of Pete with 5:18 left led to Bennett's 5-yard touchdown run that made it 24-14 with 3:06 left.
But Pete capped an 80-yard, 12-play drive with a short pass to Staley, who broke two tackles for his third touchdown — and Philadelphia's first passing touchdown of the season.
Bennett rushed for 87 yards and three touchdowns. Derrick Thomas failed to add to his league-leading total of seven sacks.
Peete, starting for injured Bobby Hoying, was 21-for-36 for 260 yards. Irving Fryar had five receptions for 57 yards. Staley ran for 73 yards and scored all three Eagles touchdowns.
Staley capped Philadelphia's second scoring drive with a 3-yard run for a 14-7 lead with 7-23 left in the third. On the drive, Peete hit Fryar for gains of 18 and 10 yards. Russell Copeland then leaped high for a 17-yard reception to the Chiefs 3-yard line.
The Eagles stopped Rashaan Shehee for a loss on third-and-one on the next possession. But Kansas City then stopped Staley for no gain on a fourth-and-one near midfield late in the third, as Philadelphia couldn't capitalize on the Chiefs' illegal procedure penalty and was forced to punt.
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